Prof. Dr. Lütfiye Durak-Ata has been appointed as a vice-rector of Istanbul Technical University starting from October 2020. We wish good luck and plenty of success Prof. Durak-Ata in her next adventures. We are confident that she will continue with even more successes. Congratulations!
Lütfiye Durak-Ata received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1996, 1999, and 2003, respectively. She was with the Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), between 2004 and 2005, and the Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, between 2005 and 2015. Since 2015, she has been with the Informatics Institute of Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, where she is currently a full professor and institute director. She is an IEEE Senior Member since 2010. Her research interests are in signal processing and communications theory.